“So I would ask Sen. Hirono in what circumstance, in what way, shape, or form is asking Neomi Rao whether she believes particular conduct to be sinful an appropriate question to be asked in this committee–ever,” Lee continued.
In a week’s time, Democrats at both the federal and state level have shown the lengths to which they will go to protect the abortion lobby.
Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S. 130) to protect babies who have survived failed abortions. Sasse went to the floor of the Senate to ask his colleagues to pass the bill by unanimous consent, but Democrats objected.
President Donald Trump urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday to use the “nuclear option” to avoid a government shutdown.
The Indiana News-Sentinel published an editorial on Thursday urging Hoosiers to vote against Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), citing his vote opposing Judge Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.
Senate Democrats fiercely opposed Richard Grenell’s nomination to become the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, and earlier this year, sought his removal after a Breitbart News interview where he said he wanted to empower conservative voices in Europe.
Senate Democrats are demanding to review over 1 million pages of material on Judge Brett Kavanaugh before voting on his Supreme Court nomination. But this is merely an obstructionist tactic to push his confirmation into 2019 to harm Republicans in the midterms, and hoping to retake Senate control so they can keep the Supreme Court seat open until 2021, after the next presidential election.
Tuesday on Hugh Hewitt’s nationally syndicated radio show, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) reacted to President Donald Trump’s nomination of D.C. Circuit U.S. Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the void to be left behind by the retirement of Supreme
Breitbart News exclusively obtained a letter Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai sent to Senate Democrats on Thursday. In it, Pai rejected the Democrats’ plea to investigate Sinclair Broadcasting Group over what the Democrats’ call “fake news.”
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) argued on NBC’s Meet the Press that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) did not have the “stomach” to continue the “Schumer Shutdown.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says it is “time for Democrats to end this nonsense,” referring to the now days-long federal government shutdown caused by Senate Democrats who demand an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens be slipped into a spending bill.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), speaking from the House floor Saturday morning, called the government shutdown a “shakedown strategy” that Senate Democrats were talked into by their base.
Gun control proponent Gabby Giffords is pushing for new regulations on muzzleloaders while Senate Democrats are pushing an all-out ban on “assault weapons.”
During a November 13 appearance on NBC’s Today, former Vice President Joe Biden answered a question on Texas church attack hero Stephen Willeford by saying, “Well, first of all, the kind of gun being carried he shouldn’t be carrying.”
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has a proposal to change to how the Senate confirms presidential nominees for federal judgeships and the executive branch. It would break the gridlock that has sparked a nationwide campaign to staff the bench and federal government.
In a move that many Americans will no doubt view as the height of liberal hypocrisy, Senate Democrats are planning to bring their chamber to a halt Monday to protest what they view as the Republicans’ closed-door process in writing a health care proposal to repeal Obamacare.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee told reporters he was proud to have shepherded the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch through to his Senate confirmation Friday, which ended the era of filibustering Supreme Court nominations that Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) began 16 years ago.
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says the Democrats’ caucus in the Senate is unwilling to work with President Donald Trump.
Capitol Hill conservatives Sen. Mike Lee (R.-Utah), House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R.-N.C.), and Meadow’s HFC predecessor Rep. James Jordan (R.-Ohio) at a Heritage Foundation-sponsored event told reporters Congress should repeal the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act–immediately.
Senators confirmed President Donald Trump’s Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.) 52-to-47-to-1, with Sen. Joseph Manchin (D.-W.V.) crossing the aisle and the nominee himself voting present.
The Democratic Connecticut senator who once law clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the author of the Roe v. Wade decision, told Breitbart News GOP senators will not change the rules to confirm Judge Neil McGill Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told reporters just off the Senate floor that Senate Democrats know they do not have the votes to stop the confirmation of Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson, but they insist on stretching out the process as a continuation of the 2016 election cycle.
Senate Democrats on the chamber’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee pressed Betsy DeVos during her confirmation hearing Tuesday evening with questions about her financial contributions, her knowledge of federal education laws, and her intentions toward the nation’s public schools.
By reporting on, and publishing, a salacious, unsubstantiated, and likely false dossier of lurid accusations against President-elect Donald Trump, CNN and Buzzfeed have hurt the media’s ability to hold the new administration accountable in future.
Senate Democrats held a late-night talkathon Monday to protest Republican lawmakers’ push to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Incoming Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says he regrets a 2013 decision by Senate Democrats, known as the “nuclear option” to decrease the number of senators needed to confirm Cabinet picks from 60 to 51 votes.
In a letter to Trump, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and other Democrats say they are concerned about “our nation’s family planning centers in the next Congress and under your Administration.”
Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) fired a group of Democratic staffers right before Christmas.
Senate Democrats from coal mining states shamed their Democratic colleagues in joining them in a procedural vote Thursday that would have ended debate on the continuing resolution to extend federal government funding through April over an extension of benefits for out-of-work coal workers.
Senate Democrats have introduced a resolution to recognize the centennial anniversary of Planned Parenthood and to promote its continuance in the country for years to come. The resolution, led by Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, is co-sponsored by 18 other Senate
For a third time, Senate Democrats are blocking the approval of a bill that would provide $1.1 billion to help in the fight against the Zika virus.
With more Zika cases popping up in the United States and Congress on its summer break, Senate Democrats are scrambling to ensure they are not blamed for their decision to choose Planned Parenthood and extraneous environmental regulations over public health.
Senate Democrats are leaving Washington, D.C. for their summer recess after blocking a GOP $1.1 billion measure that would have funded efforts to fight the Zika virus.
“There is so much we don’t know,” Dr. Jeanne Sheffield, a Johns Hopkins Hospital expert in pregnancy and infectious disease, stressed during a Capitol Hill briefing about Zika. “We don’t know the true incidence among pregnant women.”
Through its alliance with the Democrat Party and the pro-abortion mainstream media, Planned Parenthood has promoted the notion that its biggest money-makers — abortion and birth control — are the means to combat the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is being linked to cases of a rare birth defect called microcephaly, primarily in Brazil.
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA— Democratic Senate leaders are calling on the President to nominate a new Supreme Court justice “as soon as possible,” following the passing of constitutionalist Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday afternoon.
The legislation would restrict federal funds and grants to sanctuary cities and channel the funding to jurisdictions that comply with immigration authorities. It would also affirm local law enforcement’s right to comply with immigration officials and establish a mandatory minimum sentence for criminal immigrants convicted of illegally re-entering the U.S.
Senate Democrats who block legislation targeting sanctuary cities will be choosing partisanship over the lives of innocent Americans, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) charged on the Senate floor Tuesday.
The blocked legislation, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is based on scientific evidence that has shown that unborn babies at least at 20 weeks after fertilization can feel the pain associated with being destroyed during an abortion. The Senate voted 54-42 to advance the legislation, a count that fell short of the 60 votes needed.
Senate Democrats used a filibuster to prevent a vote on the Iran deal on Thursday. The move will also prevent President Barack Obama from having to use his veto power to block the motion of disapproval.
